““Over the years, I've made good money in real estate, and for some reason, this hurts Stephen's feelings. He's not a churchman, but he's extremely big on piety and sacrifice and letting you know what fine values he's got. As far as I can tell, these values consist of little more than eating ramen noodles by the case, getting laid once every fifteen years or so, and arching his back at the sight of people like me -- that is, people who have amounted to something and don't smell heavily of thrift stores.””
![“[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it." [ Man and the Gospel (1865)]” quote by Thomas Guthrie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/248/thomas-guthrie-20408_christianity_a-nd-you-may-know-how-little-god-thinks_1366438.jpg)
![“A poor believer [monetarily] certainly is looked down upon in certain churches, and yet he may be the richest man spiritually in that church.” quote by J. Vernon McGee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/06d/j-vernon-mcgee-9910_believer_a-poor-believer-monetarily-certainly-is_2578033.jpg)
![“It turned out to be just his sort of life in Melbourne [Florida] -- a little three-room mini apartment to himself, and down on the strip, five different bars where you had women going around in bathing suits. In the backyard, his mother's new husband had grown a miraculous tree, a lemon trunk…” quote by Wells Tower](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3e1/wells-tower-28754_196_it-turned-out-to-be-just-his-sort-of-lif_74216.jpg)
